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What New Traders Should Focus On

ICT Concepts Used in This Module:
• The Theory of Liquidity Raids or Stop Hunts.
• Introduction to Liquidity Pools.
• How To Locate High Probability Liquidity Pools.
• Introduction of the ICT Order Block
• High Accuracy Entry Points.
• Low Draw Down Entry Tactics.
• High Probability Targeting.
• Benefits Of Scaling Profits.
• How To Make More When You Are Wrong.

o Think completely opposite to retail

Retail → Elliott wave, Supply & demand, harmonic patterns, chart patterns etc
o All you need to know is Open, Close, Low, High
o Equal highs & Equal lows are the easiest & most common points we see in charts
o Equal highs = double top & Equal lows = double Bottom
o Retail -> If Equal highs / lows = double top / bottom occurred then retail thinks it’s a good
opportunity to enter long
o Institutions -> Institutions thinks in different way & opposite to retail
their aim is hunt the liquidity of the retails
They know there will SL above the Equal highs & SL below Equal Lows
o Below Double Bottom = Equal Lows = Retail Liquidity = Sell Stops
o Above Double Top = Equal Highs = Retail Liquidity = Buy Stops

o From this pic, price has taken the liquidity above the old high & breakdown, after breakdown
price went for consolidation mode
o At the Equal lows Zone retails think a double bottom & price started to move up as retail
buying
o But Institutions knows there is great liquidity below the equal lows & they gonna hunt those
SL of retail

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o Price always moves to the levels where the liquidity of the retail & orders of the institution
resides
o Orders reside above old high & below old low

ICT Optimal trade entry [ OTE ]

o FIB tool used = at old low
o Look for equal lows or highs
o 62% to 70% retracements level = short entry level
o Now we cam see the price taking out the old low & then the targets
o Here all the liquidity below Equal Lows are grabbed & price pumped hard after liquidity grab

What is we don’t have ICT Optimal trade entry [ OTE ] opportunity on charts

o Focus on the pink marked area with the Up Green candle at that area

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o ICT Bearish Order Block = Here Green / Up candle at the consolidation phase which is prior
to the down move
o Every Up candle & down candle doesn’t make OB , there has to be context for that OB
o When we see the up candle during the liquidity hunting phase below or above Equal
lows/highs Smart money will be selling / shorting at that candle
o In the very next candle of the BE OB price retrace back to BE OB low, i.e., Low of the BE OB &
closed at the low
o This is low risk entry

o If Short is valid then the Up / Green candle will hold the price below it until the targets are
achieved

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o Entry for Short = Low of the Up Candle BE OB

o When the very next Down candle of the BE OB retraces to the Low of the BE OB that’s the
entry

o Exit = 20 Pips below the Equal lows / Above the Equal highs

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